William Stamps Farish, Jr. | Board of Trustees

Offices/Positions Held on the Board:

Chair, Investment Committee; Member, Nominating Committee; Member, University Health Care Committee; Member, Finance Committee.

Term:

July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2016

Mr. William S. Farish, Jr. is involved in all aspects of operations at Lane’s End Farm and is active in promoting the Thoroughbred industry as a whole. Bill is currently Chairman of the Board of the Breeders’ Cup, a post that he previously held for five years (2006-2011). He is also Chairman of the Horse Political Action Committee (PAC) and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Keeneland Association, the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation and the University of Kentucky’s Gluck Equine Research Foundation.

He is a founding member of K.E.E.P., the Kentucky Equine Education Project, and is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association, The Jockey Club, The Blood-Horse, Saratoga Reading Rooms, Markey Cancer Foundation, Transylvania University and Shakertown. Farish is a former UK Board of Trustees member (2010-2016) and served on the Finance, Investment, Nominating and University Health Care Committees. He also served as a member of The Lexington School's Board of Trustees and past President of the Thoroughbred Club of America.

Farish holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia and spent two years as the personal aide to President George H. W. Bush, after working in banking at Texas Commerce and Merrill Lynch. He and his wife Kelley reside at Lane's End with their eight children. He currently serves as a Community Advisory Member on the University Health Care Committee.